Experts

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata, RIAC expert

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RIAC Expert